Gianni Ghidini

Gianni Ghidini ( born May 21, 1930 in Golese, Parma; † 20 June 1995 Baganezola, Parma ) was an Italian cyclist. As an amateur athlete, he became world champion in the individual road race and won an Olympic silver medal.

Sports career

Ghidini operated mainly in road cycling and celebrated his greatest successes as an amateur driver. As a 19 - year-old he won the Coppa Collecchio, a road race around the northern Italian city Collecchio. In 1951 he was sent by the Italian Cycling Federation to the amateur world championship road driver, which was held in Varese, Italy. There Ghidini won the world title on home soil. In 1952 he was part of the Italian squad for the Olympic Radwettkämpfe in Helsinki. There he reached with the Italian team the silver medal in road crew driving and was in the single road race seventh.

1953 moved Ghidini turned professional, where he started for the Italian team Atala and Lygie. This year, he reached the third place in the Apennine tour his best result. Overall, he was also placed in 1953 in five races. In the years 1954 and 1955 Ghidini went for the Belgian-Italian team Girardengo Eldorado, but was up on a stage win at the Giro di Sicilia reach no countable successes more. 1956 ended his career as a professional driver because he was not given a more professional contract.

In Fognano, a suburb of Parma, a bike lane was named after Gianni Ghidini.